Join us in the Steinberg Room for a reading by noted local poet Roberta Gould!

Robert Gould is the author of thirteen collections of poetry including Day True, Woven Lightening, To The Dogs, In Houses with Ladders, Three Windows, Only Rock and Other Poems, Dream Yourself Flying, Writing Air, Written Water, Not By Blood Alone, Esta Naranja, Louder Than Seeds, What History Trammels, and Pacing the Wind.

Gould taught Romance languages for twenty years at Brooklyn College and briefly at the University of California in Berkeley. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry Now, Catholic Worker, California Quarterly, Milkweed Chronicle, Mid American Review, Jewish Currents, Green Mountain Review, Confrontation, Helicon Nine, Naugatuck River Review, Socialism and Democracy, The Art and Craft of Poetry, in many other literary publications, and in anthologies including Mixed Voices, A Slant of Light, Up the River.

Titles of her 10 books, including Writing Air, Written Water, Pacing the Wind, Only Rock, Louder Than Seeds, reflect her environment and the mind that filters it. Several of her books, including What History Trammels, 2011, are available as e-books. A contributing editor of Home Planet News, she has read her work on public and university radio, Radio Universidad Guadalajara, WKCR, Columbia University, WNYC, Pacifica Radio, on various television stations, at the Pen American Center and the Woodstock Poetry Festival. She has exhibited her surreal photography, in New York City and has translated into English poetry by Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, Salvador Espriu, Pedro Garfias, Jorge Luis Borges and other Spanish language poets.